California Administrative Code

(a) The following types of appointments are not subject to the SROA Program and require no prior SROA approval, providing the criteria set forth below are met. (1) The appointment is from a reemployment list. (2) The appointment is a mandatory reinstatement to the same class, sam…

For the purpose of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Excluded Employee” means an employee of the state excluded from or otherwise without exclusive representation under the Ralph C. Dills Act. (b) “Excluded Employee Organization” means an organization that repre…

The regulations in this article shall apply to all parties to appeal hearings conducted by the Department, its Director or his/her designee.

“Appeal” means any written request for relief filed with the Department of Personnel Administration and includes “application,” “petition,” and “protest.”

A non-represented employee is defined in section 599.619 of these regulations. (a) Commencing with the 1984 calendar year, when the appointing power certifies that the actual practice of law is required for the performance of the duties of a specific position, the non-represented…

A non-represented employee is defined in section 599.619 of these regulations. Commencing with the 1988 calendar year, with approval of the appointing power, non-represented employees may be reimbursed up to $100 annually for membership dues of a professional organization or for …

An excluded, permanent employee is defined in section 599.615(b) of these regulations. (a) An excluded, permanent employee shall receive bereavement leave with pay in accordance with the provisions of Government Code section 19859.3.

(a) An excluded employee is defined in Government Code section 3527(b) (Ralph C. Dills Act). (b) The Department will provide for an Employee Assistance Program for excluded employees. The Employee Assistance Program shall be the Department's plan and provide for problem assessmen…

An excluded employee is defined in section 599.615(b) of these regulations. (a) Pursuant to Government Code section 20636(g)(6)(B), the Department has determined that the following payments and allowances will not be considered compensation for retirement purposes for excluded em…

All part-time, seasonal, or temporary (PST) employees who are ineligible for participation in the Public Employees' Retirement System shall be enrolled in the PST Retirement Plan. In the event a dispute arises over enrollment eligibility, the final determination shall be made by …

The Plan is an eligible deferred compensation plan that shall be administered by the Department of Personnel Administration in accordance with the Plan, as amended by the Department from time to time, regulations adopted by the Internal Revenue Service pursuant to the Omnibus Bud…

A return of contributions and earnings thereon shall only be permitted upon a separation from State service. The Department shall issue payments at least quarterly.

Employees must be designated as an excluded employee to enroll during the annual open enrollment period. (a) To be eligible for the FlexElect Program, an employee must be working half-time or more and be either: (1) a permanent civil service employee who is designated managerial,…

Benefit options may be changed or cancelled during the plan year if a change in status events as defined by Internal Revenue Service regulations occurs. The allowable change in status events include: marriage, divorce, legal separation, or annulment; the birth or adoption of a ch…

A monthly administrative post-tax fee, to be determined by the Department, will be charged during the plan year to each employee who elects to participate in the FlexElect Program.

“Screening Program” means the Department, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or an agency that is delegated by the Department to conduct the psychological screening of peace officer candidates, as set forth in section 599.974, et seq.

The standards and procedures for conducting psychological screening shall be as follows: (a) Minimum Psychological Standards. In order to be certified as a peace officer, a candidate must be found to be free from any job relevant psychological, emotional or mental traits, charact…

Service in a career executive assignment shall be credited for seniority credits as if the service had been under a general civil service appointment. Credit for service in the career executive assignment category shall be earned as if the entire category were one class; the rate…

A person serving in a career executive assignment may be separated from state service through resignation, automatic resignation, dismissal, retirement, or for medical reasons under the provisions of Government Code section 19253.5 in the same manner as is provided for other civi…

(a) Words shall have their usual meaning unless the context or a definition of a word or phrase indicates a different meaning. Words used in their present tense shall include the future tense; words in the singular form shall include the plural form; and use of the masculine gend…

The State Board of Control has adopted the following rules and regulations effective October 1, 1957. These rules and regulations repeal all other previous rules and regulations hitherto in effect.

(a) Due process hearing procedures apply to the resolution of disagreements between a parent and a public agency regarding the proposal or refusal of a public agency to initiate or change the identification, assessment, educational placement, or the provision of special education…

Allegations of failure by an LEA or CCS to comply with these regulations, shall be resolved pursuant to Chapter 5.1, commencing with Section 4600, of Division 1 of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations.

(a) “Ability to be impartial” means that although an applicant may have strong views, and may have participated in social or political causes, the applicant has the capacity and willingness, while serving as a member of the commission, to set aside his or her personal views and a…

“Candidate” for federal or state office means a candidate for federal or state elective office.

“Commissioner” means a member of the Citizens Redistricting Commission.

“Conflict of interest” means having engaged in any of the activities or having had any of the relationships specified in subdivision (a)(2) of section 8252 of the Government Code that require disqualification from serving as either a member of the commission or a member of the pa…

“Registered federal, state, or local lobbyist” means a person registered as a lobbyist with the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, the California Secretary of State, or any political subdivision of the State of California.

(a) “Relevant analytical skills” means the learned abilities that a commissioner may need to successfully complete the work of the commission. (b) Abilities related to performing the following tasks shall be considered relevant analytical skills: gathering and comprehending infor…

“State office” means every office, agency, department, division, bureau, board, and commission within the government of the State of California.

(a) The panel shall meet in Sacramento. (b) The panel shall elect a panel chair during its first meeting. The chair shall preside over all panel meetings. A majority of the panel members may replace the chair or appoint an acting chair to serve in the chair's absence. (c) Two mem…

Having excluded from the initial applicant pool those applicants who, based on their initial application, were not eligible to serve as members of the commission because of an inability to satisfy the requirements of subdivision (c)(3) of section 2 of Article XXI of the Californi…

(a) Beginning on the date that the names of the successful Phase I applicants are posted on the State Auditor's Office's website, and continuing throughout the remainder of the application process until the 14 members of the commission are selected, the State Auditor's Office sha…

(a) During Phase II, each member of the panel shall review the application materials submitted regarding each applicant remaining in the applicant pool, for the purpose of determining which applicants shall be removed from the pool to leave no more than 120 of the most qualified …

(a) If a vacancy occurs on the commission before it completes its redistricting function, and the commission is unable to fill the vacancy with an applicant from the same subpool of applicants that the vacating commissioner was drawn or selected from, as it existed on July 5 of t…

(a) The State's fiscal year is from July 1st to and including June 30th of the following year. (b) “Agreement or order” as used in this section means an agreement, contract, printing estimate, purchase order, subpurchase order, or Office of Procurement--Central Stores supply orde…

“State high risk audit report” means an audit report as described in California Code of Regulations, title 2, section 61022, subdivision (a), issued regarding a state high risk audit performed by the State Auditor under the authority granted by Government Code section 8546.5.

“State high risk list” means a list of high-risk state agencies and statewide issues established by the State Auditor not less frequently than once every two years as provided by California Code of Regulations, title 2, section 61009, subdivision (a).

(a) Not less frequently than once every two years, the State Auditor shall establish a state high risk list consisting of state agencies, including particular programs or mission areas within state agencies, and statewide issues that the State Auditor determines to be at high ris…

(a) When making an assessment to determine the state agencies and statewide issues that should appear on a new state high risk list, the State Auditor shall gather information to conduct the assessment. The State Auditor shall gather information from the State Auditor's past audi…

(a) At any time after establishing a new state high risk list, the State Auditor may amend the list to add a state agency or statewide issue to the list if the State Auditor determines: (1) The state agency or statewide issue is high risk based on an assessment performed in accor…

(a) After establishing a new state high risk list, the State Auditor shall establish a tentative plan for performing audits regarding state agencies and statewide issues appearing on the state high risk list. The tentative state high risk audit plan shall, at a minimum, include: …

Whenever the State Auditor performs a state high risk audit, the audit shall be performed in accordance with the “Government Auditing Standards” published by the Comptroller General of the United States.

After identifying a local government agency as having potential risk of waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement or having major challenges associated with its economy, efficiency, or effectiveness, the State Auditor shall develop an audit proposal and obtain approval from the audit…

(a) Prior to issuing an audit report, the State Auditor shall provide a confidential draft audit report to the appropriate official within the local government agency and allow the official five business days to respond in writing to the report. The State Auditor shall include th…

(See Section 16304, Government Code).

(a) Each of the California Department of Health Care Services' state operations expenditures and capital outlay expenditures constitutes an administrative cost with respect to any funds transferred to the California Department of Health Care Services from the Fund pursuant to Rev…

(a) Each of the California Department of Justice's state operations expenditures and capital outlay expenditures constitutes an administrative cost with respect to any funds transferred to the California Department of Justice from the Fund pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code se…

“Consistent with the provisions of this article relating to other state civil service employees” means that the independent investigator shall comply with this chapter and provide the State Auditor's Office and employees with the same rights and obligations as civil servants bein…

§ 450.16. Change of Business or Corporate Name. [Renumbered] This database is current through 5/1/26 Register 2026, No. 18. Source: https://govt.westlaw.com/calregs/Document/I67CA42735A1E11EC8227000D3A7C4BC3?viewType=FullText&originationContext=documenttoc&transitionType=Category…